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No surprise here, I'll hold with my May predictions.

Big East - 2016-17 Finish (02 Sept. Edition)

1. Creighton
2. Seton Hall
2. Villanova
4. Xavier
5. Georgetown
6. St Johns
7. DePaul
8. Marquette
9. Providence
10. Butler

Well, all in. Nova repeats as NFC

Hoya33 wrote:Hoyas will win the Big East. Villanova has obviously been great in the first three years, but they have lost too much.

Top five:

1. Georgetown
2. Xavier
3. Seton Hall
4. Villanova
5. Marquette

Five Big East teams will make the tournament.

Butler will win the NIT.

Providence will finish last.

Disregarded your post after seeing CU excluded from your top 3, much less your top 5. Also Nova 4th? WTF???

Novachap wrote:Well, all in. Nova repeats as NFC

Damn! Much better than all of mine.

Xavier
Villanova
Creighton
Butler
Marquette
Georgetown
Seton Hall
St Johns
Providence
DePaul

POY - Blueitt
FOY - Ponds
COY - Holtmann

NCAA teams -- Xavier, Villanova, Creighton, Butler, Marquette, Georgetown
NIT teams -- Seton Hall, St Johns

Villanova
Creighton
Xavier
Georgetown
Seton Hall
Marquette
Butler
St. John's
Providence
DePaul

7 teams go dancing

I'm loving the high hopes many of you have for Marquette this year. Sadly, I don't think we finish in the top-5 in the Big East. I worry that we don't have enough height/size with our squad, and have too many guards to compete with the bigger, physical teams this year. Behind Fisher, we only have Heldt, and no other player is taller than 6'7. That having been said, I do love our depth at the guard position, and I love the addition of Reinhardt. If Fisher gets into foul trouble, which he did often last year, we are in big trouble.

My bold prediction? At least one Big East head coach will leave for another job after the season.

GoldenWarrior11 wrote:I'm loving the high hopes many of you have for Marquette this year. Sadly, I don't think we finish in the top-5 in the Big East. I worry that we don't have enough height/size with our squad, and have too many guards to compete with the bigger, physical teams this year. Behind Fisher, we only have Heldt, and no other player is taller than 6'7. That having been said, I do love our depth at the guard position, and I love the addition of Reinhardt. If Fisher gets into foul trouble, which he did often last year, we are in big trouble.

My bold prediction? At least one Big East head coach will leave for another job after the season.

Well, if you're going to predict that, may it be your coach and not ours.

Hoya33 wrote:Hoyas will win the Big East. Villanova has obviously been great in the first three years, but they have lost too much.

Top five:

1. Georgetown
2. Xavier
3. Seton Hall
4. Villanova
5. Marquette

Five Big East teams will make the tournament.

Butler will win the NIT.

Providence will finish last.

How can you see anybody finishing above Villanova?

The title asked for bold prediction. Picking Villanova, with their recent success, is not bold.

Another prediction: This board in their preseason predictions will overrate Xavier and Creighton and underrate Providence.

JohnW22 wrote:

Hoya33 wrote:Hoyas will win the Big East. Villanova has obviously been great in the first three years, but they have lost too much.

Top five:

1. Georgetown
2. Xavier
3. Seton Hall
4. Villanova
5. Marquette

Five Big East teams will make the tournament.

Butler will win the NIT.

Providence will finish last.

How can you see anybody finishing above Villanova?